May 11, 2012

Run for Road Safety to start at OneA Events Place on May 13

Run for Road Safety to start at OneA Events Place on May 13, Sunday is an important date for runners, the family of the late professor-journalist Lourdes"Chit" Estella Simbulan and those who advocate road safety. It also commemorates the declaration of U.N.’s Decade of Action for Road Safety last year.

One
person who will not miss the event is Alvin Carranza, the founder of
MacGraphics Carranz and team manager of Pilipinas Teen Azkals.

Aside
from owning OneA Events Place, the run’s starting point, road safety—he says—
has been one of his advocacies.

“If we’re aware of what the
government agencies, including U.N., has been doing, we’ll remember that each
time we drive, we have to be more careful,” Carranza tells the bloggers on May 10 at the Café Lupe.

The
recent statistics released by the World Bank last month states, “Currently, 1.3
million people are killed on the world’s roads each year and 90 percent of
these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, with an economic cost
that can exceed total overseas aid flowing in.”

Present
at the bloggers’ night are Chito Manuel of Philippine Football Federation, Atoy
Sta. Cruz of Motorcyle Philippines Federation, and Prof. Roland Simbulan, the
husband of Chit.

Alvin Carranza and Roland Simbulan

The run, which will be held this Sunday, at 5:00 a.m. Those who want to register, please contact Vicky 0917 9841063 or text these numbers 09224194879 and 09175599019. There will be an onsite registration as well.

Several
government agencies joined forces to organize this run: Department of Transportation and Communications
(DOTC), Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Land Transportation
Office (LTO); Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB),
Automobile Association of the Philippines, and Motorcycle Philippines
Federation.